Interfax
April 14 2005

Armenian students protest Georgian policies

YEREVAN. April 14 (Interfax) – Armenian students held a protest rally
in front of the Georgian Embassy in Yerevan on Thursday against what
they see as Georgia’s policy of assimilation of ethnic Armenians.

Arsen Balian, one of the rally organizers, told Interfax the Georgian
national policy “goes beyond the limits of common sense.”

“We ask the Georgian authorities not to yield to provocation by third
forces, because Armenia and Georgia are countries friendly to each
other,” Balian said.

The protesters said the Georgian authorities should not have used
force to disperse demonstrations held by ethnic Armenians living in
Georgia in protest against the withdrawal of the Russian bases from
Georgian territory.

At the same time, the organizers emphasized that they were not
pursuing any political ends.

The protesters handed over a letter to the Georgian Ambassador to
Armenian Giorgi Saganelidze.